No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~ Aesop
Spring Morning Magic – photo by George Herrick
The Universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Milky Way and Lone Tree – photo by danbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
Being “for” expands your heart. Being “against” contracts it. Feel this. The energy you radiate from your chest is a thousand times more powerful than the opinion you hold in your head…
~ Fred LaMotte
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
Research shows that gratitude changes the brain’s neural pathways in ways that enhance our enjoyment of giving to others. And when experienced as an emotional state, it
increases our care and concern for the collective good.
~ A Network for Grateful Living
Ambassadors of Spring, Daffodils – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
Diversity is the nature of evolution. Evolution has worked for billions of years to create biodiversity, cultural diversity, religious diversity, linguistic diversity and truth diversity. But now, in our mistaken view of the world, we are turning this diversity, which we should be celebrating, into divisions… If we wish to reduce, or hopefully remove altogether, the possibilities of conflict, wars, poverty, exploitation, then we have to rise above these divisions which we have created in the world and celebrate our diversity.
~ Satish Kumar
Sunset, Tanah Lot Temple, Bali – photo by Netfalls, bigstockphoto.com
She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.
~ Rudy Francisco
Butterflies and Flowers – photo by Lilkar, bigstockphoto.com
We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Nature’s Magic – Spring in New York City – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
~ Howard Zinn
Lotus Blossom – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
When we see our planet from the perspective of space, certain things become undeniably clear. We keep trying to deal with issues such as global warming, deforestation, biodiversity loss as standalone issues, when in reality, they’re just symptoms of the underlying root problem. And the problem is that we don’t see ourselves as planetary.
~ Ron Garan, NASA astronaut
Earth from the Moon – photo by NASA.webp
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
~ John O’Donohue
Karst Landscape, Li River, China – photo by streetflash, bigstockphoto.com
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden rather than fight over the turf.
~ Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.
Monument Valley – photo by FotoBanka.net, bigstockphoto.com
Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other. No matter how difficult it is…Life is good when you are happy; but much better when others are happy because of you.
~ Pope Francis
Nature’s Beauty, Montana – photo by Jen Silacci
If you really touch one flower deeply, you touch the whole cosmos. The cosmos is neither one nor many. When you touch one, you touch many, and when you touch many, you touch one..
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Spring Near the East River, New York City – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to the highest advantage of others…
Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone…
~ Buckminster Fuller
Sequoia National Park – photo by Devadana Sanctuary
To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Sunrise – photo by Mit HPS aul Reisen, bigstockphoto.com